Troubleshooting Your Vanatoo Powered Speakers

In the unlikely event that you should experience problems with your Vanatoo Transparent One powered speakers, we have listed a few suggestions that might help you. If these suggestions fail to correct your problem, check out our FAQs or contact us at support@vanatoo.com.

Problem

Troubleshooting Steps:

Power LED is not illuminated

Make sure the power switch is switched to the “ON” position.

Make sure the AC power cord is properly connected to both the active speaker and to your household wall outlet.

Make sure the wall outlet you have plugged the power cord into is a “live” outlet.

No sound from either speaker

Make sure the power LED is illuminated. If not, see the steps for “Power LED is not illuminated”.

Make sure the active speaker volume knob is turned up.

Make sure your audio source volume is turned up.

Make sure your audio source is playing audio.

Disconnect all but one audio source input on the active speaker. Note that some digital audio devices (optical, coax or audio USB) continue to output a signal even if they aren’t producing sound. This can result in blocking the electronics from switching to another source input.

If the speaker was previously working properly but stopped suddenly, this may be the result of the output drivers experiencing thermal shutdown. This is a normal protection feature and does not indicate a malfunction.

Turn the power off on the active speaker, wait five minutes, turn down the volume of the audio source, then turn the speaker system back on.

If possible, try different inputs on the active speaker to see if one works where another may not.

Sound from active speaker but not from passive speaker

Make sure both of the speaker wires are properly connected to the active speaker output terminals.

Make sure both of the speaker wires are properly connected to the passive speaker input terminals.

If you are using the analog input, make sure the 3.5mm connector is firmly seated into the connector input on the active speaker and the audio source.

If you are using the 3.5mm cable to RCA “Y” cable, make sure both of the RCA connectors are properly seated.

Sound from passive speaker but not from active speaker

If you are using the analog input, make sure the 3.5mm connector is firmly seated into the connector input on the active speaker and the audio source.

If you are using the 3.5mm cable to RCA “Y” cable, make sure both of the RCA connectors are properly seated.

Automatic source switching is not switching between multiple inputs as I expected.

Some audio devices continue to output a signal on the optical, coax and/or audio USB connections when they are either silent or have been placed in “sleep mode”. When this happens, the continuous signal can block the electronics from switching to another source.

This can be tested by disconnecting the suspect digital cable to see if the electronics then switches to another input.

In the case of the optical output, this can be verified by plugging one end of the optical TOSLINK cable into the audio device and looking at the opposite end of the cable. If you see a red light the audio device is producing a signal.

Audio is distorted

If you are using the analog input (3.5 mm connector) make sure you are not overdriving the audio input. Turn down the volume on your audio device and, if necessary, turn up the volume on the active speaker.

Make sure you are not overdriving the speaker drivers. Turn down your audio source device. You may want to turn down the volume knob on the active speaker also.

Make sure the audio source signal is providing a clean signal.

Make sure the cable between the audio source and the active speaker is properly seated.

Sound drops out momentarily

This is usually an indication that one of the many automatic protection circuits is engaging to protect the speakers from permanent damage as a result of playing the speakers louder than they can safely play. Turn either the active speaker volume or the audio source volume down slightly until the speakers operate normally. If you need to play louder than the Transparent One speakers allow, you should consider adding a subwoofer to your system.

No audio from the optional subwoofer

Make sure the RCA cable between the active speaker subwoofer output and the subwoofer’s input are properly seated.